Characters
Characters 2
Setting/Lit Terms
Plot
Background
100

This character drank blood in the forest to kill Goody Proctor.  She is the ringleader of the other girls in Salem.

Abigail Williams

100

This character was blamed by Abigail for conjuring spirits in the forest.  She is enslaved by Rev. Parris.

Tituba

100

What is the setting of Act 1?

The home of Reverend Parris.
100

What object is used to frame Elizabeth in Act 2?

A poppet

100

Where does "The Crucible" take place?

Salem, Massachusetts 

200

A farmer in his mid-30s.  He cheated on his wife with Abigail Williams several months before the start of the play.

John Proctor

200

This woman is hated by Abigail because she is married to the man she loves.

Elizabeth Proctor

200

What is the setting of Act 2?

The Proctor household.
200

"I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and they will run the devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief."

Rebecca Nurse

200

What year does "The Crucible" take place?

1692

300

This character has lost 7 out of 8 children to "witchcraft"

Mrs. Putnam

300

This old man sues everyone and accidentally gets his wife in trouble by telling others that she reads books.

Giles Corey

300

"I will fall like an ocean on that court" uses what literary device?

simile

300

Besides her confession, what else is keeping Sarah Good from hanging?

She is supposedly pregnant.

300

Who wrote "The Crucible"?

Arthur Miller

400

This Reverend only preaches hell and damnation and never mentions God.  He cares more about his reputation than his ailing daughter.

Reverend Parris

400

The new servant of the Proctors, she gives Goody Proctor a poppet doll with a needle in it.

Mary Warren

400

37.  Hale’s statement, “Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small,” makes use of this literary device:

metaphor

400

In Act 2, why does Elizabeth want John to go to Salem?

To tell Ezekiel Cheever that the girls are lying about witchcraft.

400
Besides an interest in the witch trials themselves, what other event in American history inspired the author to write "The Crucible"?

McCarthyism / The Red Scare

500

This character is very educated and trying to get to the bottom of whether or not the girls suffer from "witchcraft."

Reverend Hale

500

She has 11 kids and 26 grandkids.  She thinks there is no witchcraft, just kids being kids.

Rebecca Nurse

500
John Proctor forgetting the sin of adultery is an example of what?

Irony

500

Why does Reverend Hale come to the Proctor household in Act 2?

To question them about their Christian nature.

500

What commandment does John Proctor forget?

Thou shall not commit adultery
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